Slow Going: the Mortuary, Modernity and the Hometown Association in Bali-Nyonga, Cameroon

Abstract

During the three decades following the end of the Nigerian civil war little attention has been given to the children who lived through he hostilities. This article onty the recollections of present-day adults who experienced the crisis in their childhood, ghathered by means of a qualitative research methodology, tells the story of the Nigerian civil war as the narrators perceived it in their childhoods. It probes their feelings and responses to the conflict, their lives under hostilities and some of the effects of the war on child survivors.